Sökning: "coming of age"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 67 avhandlingar innehållade orden coming of age.

1. 1. Coming of Contraceptive Age: An Interdiciplinary Analysis of Hormonal Contraceptives and Mental Health

   Författare :Sofia Zettermark; Socialepidemiologi; []
   Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Interdisciplinary; Social Epidemiology; Gender Studies; Hormonal Contraceptives; Reproductive Justice; Intersectionality;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis emanates from the discursive gap between a medical discourse andexperience-driven knowledges in mental health aspects of hormonal contraceptives.The tensions and fractures between a medical discourse focusing on contraceptiveeffectiveness and largely refuting any significant adverse outcomes, and experiencebasednarratives of commonplace detrimental, or at least unwelcome and unpleasant,mental health effects, is apparent. LÄS MER

3. 2. Prevention of type 2 diabetes : modeling the cost-effectiveness of diabetes prevention

   Författare :Anne Neumann; Lars Lindholm; Katarina Steen Carlsson; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; type 2 diabetes mellitus; prevention; health economics; Markov modeling; risk equations; health-related quality of life; lifestyle modification; pre-diabetic states; cost-effectiveness; Västerbotten Intervention Programme;

   Sammanfattning : Background: Diabetes is a common and costly disease that is expected to continue even to grow in prevalence and health expenditures over the coming decades. Type 2 diabetes is the most common diabetes type and is characterized by insulin resistance and relative insulin deficiency. LÄS MER

4. 3. Levd erfarenhet av ålder : Föreställningar om och erfarenheter av att vara och bli äldre

   Författare :Maria Sjölund; Stina Johansson; Hildur Kalman; Clary Krekula Mårtensson; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; ålder; åldrande; äldre i samhället; åldersförhandling; situationsanalys; levd erfarenhet; ålderspositioner; ålderism; aktivt åldrande;

   Sammanfattning : Starting from the perspective that the ageing human body always is a situation and in a situation, the present thesis explores situations in which the meaning of age and ageing is negotiated. The analytical focus is on situations, and more specifically on experiences of age and ageing. LÄS MER

5. 4. Upplysning utan förnuft : begär och frihet hos Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, David Hume och Montesquieu

   Författare :Victoria Höög; Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoria; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; John Locke; Thomas Hobbes; postmodernism; modernity; women; political freedom; classical republicanism; human nature; reason; virtue; passions; Enlightenment; desire; David Hume; Charles de Montesquieu.; History of philosophy; history of ideas; Filosofins historia; idéhistoria;

   Sammanfattning : This essay has three main aims. The first one is to give an overview of some hundred years of European intellectual history, bringing out new aspects of the classical thinkers. The analysis of the four philosophers Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, David Hume and Charles de Montesquieu aims at illustrating a general historical process, viz. LÄS MER

7. 5. Perspectives from a human-centred archaeology : Iron Age people and society on Öland

   Författare :Helene Wilhelmson; begravning och social identitet Gravarkeologiska forskargruppen – Död; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Osteology; bioarchaeology; Iron Age; Scandinavia; 3D; digital; Image Based Modeling; GIS; isotopes; Oxygen; Strontium; Carbon; Nitrogen; trophic level effect; fractionation; chronology; network; Virtual Taphonomy; human-centred archaeology; mortographies; dietary shift; integration; immigration; diet; migration; violence; burial; Viking Age; Öland; island;

   Sammanfattning : The objective of this study was to develop, test and evaluate a specifically defined interdisciplinary approach—the human-centred approach—as applied to a case study, Iron Age Öland. Four themes were selected to highlight different aspects of particular interest in Öland: taphonomy, diet, migration, and social organization. LÄS MER